GUI installer worked well for me doing a full install and installing lilo to partition sector. The only minor (very minor) issue I noticed was on the last page (installation is completed) the text tells you to click on Next to restart but the button is labled Restart.

So far everything appears to work appart from I have to connect to my network manually avery time I boot, was the same in last beta I tried (B2.2).

Right. Multiple installs on two different machines. This is becoming a bit confusing....

First, the lockups I've mentioned a couple of times. First install on the laptop ended up the same way - complete the first stage of the install, reboot, go through the final configuration, lockup before reaching the GUI login. This time I left it for 20 minutes before I powered off. I think I may have found a way to avoid the problem, though I have no idea why it is occuring.

On the second install to the T42, when it rebooted, I edited the Grub command line, changed it from splash=silent to splash=quiet (on the basis that I've noticed a couple of times that I don't seem to get the lockups if I can get to verbose splash screen mode before it goes through the final stage of the boot to GUI. I'll have to prove it with more installs, but it worked - straight through to GMD without any lockup.

Problems (sorry, but there are several...). First, on the T42, volume is set to 0 (I suspect due to the fact that it registering 'default' rather than the correct device. If I adjust the volume, next time I boot, it is back to 0. This does not happen on a TUI install, but in those circumstances, I have to option to select the correct device during Alsa setup. This is consistent on both the T42 and the old PIII machine.

ALT-F2 still doesn't work on the T42, but does work on the PIII. Not a hardware problem, since it does work on the T42 under Zenwalk 5.2, VL5.9 Standard and VL5.9 SOHO. I have no idea what is causing that problem...

Inconsistency. VasmCC launched from the toolbar uses vsuper. Launched from the menu, it uses kdesu.

Vsuper is also (for the first time in my experience), inconsistent in operation. In a number of instances, it starts, I get a flash of something, and it goes away. After which, I get a partial wait mouse cursor for 30 seconds or more. I've noticed this behaviour when using it from the Thunar right-click menu especially - installing a number of packages from a directory will have it fail if I try to do it too fast. Every time it fails, I get the partial wait cursor.

More Vsuper. IMHO it is an unforgivable breach of security to have it default to saving the root password for the 'session'. In my case, a 'session' can be months. This default really needs to be changed. On a less serious note, I'm not real sure I like the screen darkening effects - reminds me far too much of another OS. I also wonder if the load of going through that routine is what causing the unreliable operation I'm seeing.

I found an Elsa Synergy AGP card to drop into the old PIII, which works much better - I can now get the full 1280x1024 x 24 bit colour on that machine. It was able to go through the GUI install without problems. The only oddity is that it doesn't like the splash screen and defaults to verbose mode during boot.

There is a minor glitch in the TUI install - I'll have to check the message, but as it starts the configuration phase, there is an error regarding gsb desktop. I'll copy it down on my next test install... I also note that when I use the TUI install, there is an extra Lilo option - Linux, Linux TUI, and Linux GUI. The last one is not present when Lilo is installed by the GUI install.

I just grabbed the ISO and started to install it on a machine i have here on a sata hdd.

I dont know what kind of detailed info you need or where i can get it, but i get to the install portion and just as soon as it gets ready to install on the selected, partitioned hdd; it crashes to the desktop with the menu button in the corner..and thats it. it doesnt do anything else.

1) immediately after loading init.gz the VL splash screen comes up but flashes three times before the graphical installer is loaded. Is this flashing necessary? - it could be off-putting for many newbs.2) System Administrator Password screen: punctuation probs: missing periods or spaces after periods.3) Create User Accounts Screen: bad English: "Enter password for twice for accuracy"4) some other screens need English punctuation work as above.

First Boot-Up========-on first boot the "Congratulations" text screen. Punctuation probs as above.

xfce Menu and apps============1) why are there both mousepad and leafpad on the system? - they are identical anyways.2) is there not a more user friendly pdf reader (but NOT acrobat) that xpdf, ie epdf (or does it require too many Gnome apps)?3) vcpufreq raises an "out of bounds" error ([21] Out of Bounds. FMain.?.0). My CPU is not supported but I did not get this error in SOHO 5.9.4) xfce4 TaskManager occurs twice in System Menu.5) both vcpufreq and vl-hot-config are still using KDEsu rather than vsuper.6) none of the three large browsers are set up properly to read or launch a PDF reader properly. This is a no-no for newbs. They have no idea where to find xpdf.7) Thunar does not have basic file associations set up (eg for .pdf, .mp3, .odt, etc.) This is fine for experienced users who know what application goes with wht, but certainly not for newbs.

OpenBox======-menu is still invalid. As we provide lxde why don't we just remove openbox altogether? Anyone interested enough in such can install it later from the repository...

Larry

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1) immediately after loading init.gz the VL splash screen comes up but flashes three times before the graphical installer is loaded. Is this flashing necessary? - it could be off-putting for many newbs.

This is where the video is being setup, we may be able to offer text saying it is going to happen, not sure if we can get rid of it though.

xfce Menu and apps============1) why are there both mousepad and leafpad on the system? - they are identical anyways.2) is there not a more user friendly pdf reader (but NOT acrobat) that xpdf, ie epdf (or does it require too many Gnome apps)?3) vcpufreq raises an "out of bounds" error ([21] Out of Bounds. FMain.?.0). My CPU is not supported but I did not get this error in SOHO 5.9.

I will report this to joe1962, All my cpu's support freq scaling now so i am not seeing this

5) both vcpufreq and vl-hot-config are still using KDEsu rather than vsuper.6) none of the three large browsers are set up properly to read or launch a PDF reader properly. This is a no-no for newbs. They have no idea where to find xpdf.7) Thunar does not have basic file associations set up (eg for .pdf, .mp3, .odt, etc.) This is fine for experienced users who know what application goes with wht, but certainly not for newbs.

OpenBox======-menu is still invalid. As we provide lxde why don't we just remove openbox altogether? Anyone interested enough in such can install it later from the repository...

Larry

openbox is required for lxde to run. I can remove the openbox.desktop so it is not seen from GDM or we can get a default menu??

I am confused as to whether RC1 came with the new Gambas2 vcpufreq, or the previous version. If G2, then "/sbin/vcpufreq-loader.gambas" is correct, otherwise it is the G1 version. Also, I do not get the reported error even without loading any cpufreq kernel modules, it simply reports "UNAVAILABLE".

EDIT: I must add that I do not have RC1 yet, I am developing/testing on alfa 1.2!

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5) both vcpufreq and vl-hot-config are still using KDEsu rather than vsuper.

The new versions of both apps now look for kdesu or gksu, in that order, it is not needed in the .desktop menu file. Perhaps I should reverse this? The reason I did kdesu first was because I was using SOHO then. Is kdesu included in kdelibs?

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